INTERVIEW: Jerry Brown: Learning to Live with Our Limits

Jerry Brown, onetime Jesuit seminarian,
believes that sin is original and selfish instincts natural, and he
also suspects that America is experiencing a
"counterreformation"  against the expansive governmental policies of
past years. What makes these views especially striking, of course, is
that Brown, 37, is the Democratic Governor of California. In his first
year in office, he has curbed growth in his state's burgeoning
governmental employment and spending. He has admonished Californians to
lower their sights, prepare to make needed sacrifices instead of
slaking the urge to consume, and accept unaccustomed notions of
inherent limits instead of boundless growth.